Small Steps, Big Results

To be fit, you don’t need to run 100-mile ultramarathons or climb Mt. Everest. To build physical strength, you don’t need to be a powerlifter. To build good focus, you don’t need to meditate in the Himalayas for a year. When we seek inspiration for...

Living Beyond Fear

Yesterday, during my evening walk with a retired IAS officer, he said that many officers in his service are unhappy with their professional life. They feel stuck but somehow reconcile to it. And this is not just about IAS but it could happen in any job, especially the...

Earn the Right to Advise

In 1994, when India’s ex-PM Narasimha Rao addressed the US Congress, he told this story about Mahatma Gandhi: Once a lady came to Gandhiji and asked him to tell her son to stop eating sugar. Instead of doing what she asked, Gandhiji asked her to come after two...

Accept your life ‘as is’

The hardest thing in life is not clearing tough exams, getting big-brand jobs, making money, or earning fame. All these are hard but they aren’t the hardest. The hardest is accepting your life ‘as is’ — no preconditions, no changes — just...